The Sun. — London, England, 1809-11-21 00:00:00

POETRY. EPIGRAM/. On the run oured resignation of the Russian Adiniral Pulcz di - sicA of the service—so tell the Grand Duke' I've 't brown up my Commission—Your Servant, IOHN TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, I beg leave to present you a few lines on the very liievailing and Jashionable bidges . and Biiftorrs - , lettned the 0. P.'s, -being an humble attempt -at a tiew explanation of those curious initials. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Liverpool, Nov. i 6. *:; --AD ANcLo.s nCr O quotiesllos vestro libramine Fultnen Excussit pelago, ter tnille tulitque At quo nuns abiit virrur, Neptunia prole: • " • Cultnine quam lapsos video de nominis alto !, Ab! servi, ruitis* Pluti ad squalentia regna ? . Et geritis Domini rig;ium sub pelore notum lieu mihi ! namque ANG L I s nusc dominantur 0 P e S. * Divitiarum vel Opum numen. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. . The play-bills of yesterday announced: Richard the Third as the intended representation for the evening, but on account of the indisposition of Mr. COOKE the Tragedy of Romeo and Alia was sub stituted. :tinted bills notifying the change in the performance were placed at all the avenues of the Theatre. The play, as usual,' was well- received during the three first aEls.—Mis.Cr,AtiKE having gained a little more confidence, exerted herself with more ease and spirit, and displayed iu Juliet talenM that deServe public protection.—Mr. C: Ktmaue,, who is an: excellent representative of Romeo, receiy ed some marks .of displeasure from the 0. P. Metn - 7. bars, but Pe - had reason to be satisfied with - the burst of applause Which it drew forth from the att• lience in general.—After the third act the remain der of theplay j was as much a pantomime as _Dun ju'an, which succeeded it. The half-price visitors Were 'nearly as violent in the pit 'as upon any former ilecasion,, but we conclude they had not been ap riSed of What had taken pike - in - the Court of Bench in the morning, or they would pro babry have acted with more caution. There were fewer persons with the ensigns of 0. P. and Abe lbedals,.but the body seemed on the Whole not di tninished. It is certain - , hoWever, that they did not seem to be headed and .excited by any persons of re spectable appearance, and they Teceived little en tOuragement from the boxes. In the galleries there Were a very few turbUlent young men, and they , veresoon - rethaved. The ,piacards last night chiefly, pointed at the private boxes, and they were of so vulgar, and offensiVe a nature as to shew that the I ttre liberal opponents of the new prices are asham ed of the measures by which their cause is supported, and think proper to Withdraw theircountenance troll) procee;iings which could bring nothing but disgrace upon any cause. On the dropping of the curtain the ctiStorriary.trfornianes of cheers, groans, and dance took-place, alter which the performers quietly aipersect. THE LlcEuts.7—Affer Mr. ARNOLD'S- pleasant Comedy of Man'and Wye, in which NESS KELLY, a very promising unaffected young actress, took the part of Fanny, on account of the 'sudden indisposi tion of Miss a new farce was last night.pro ducei under the title of Kot at ilome. The chief Porpoie of the farce 'seems-to have been to shea r the versatile powers" MstHEWS, but as this pur ose now much more than " a twice-told tale," ?t required more. dramatic:force, spirit, and novelty, Clan characterized the prockuction. The plot is founded on the jealousy, or tattier suspicion, of a married man, who Lad previously been a great. libertine, and on'the attempts of one of his friends to seduce his wife, who however displays ouch affe(tion and fidelity to her husband, as to. induce him to think more favourably of the female sex.— MELVIN having nobody to compare with him in a novel , character, appeared to more advantage than • Oil any former occasion. MATnEws, as usual, dis i,'layed : an amusin, ,and the of the 4- trial - niers exerted g themselves rest with spirit, but the general reception of the piece menaced a.short du ration, though DECAMP, amidst great turbulence announced it for this evening. Anpther Gottenburgh Mail_ arrived : last . night,, hit it adds little to the intelligence given in our Jail. The Swedish and Danish Plenipotentiaries Were about to commence their negociation at. Jon cuping•on the 12th, and the peace, we doubt not, Avouldsoon be concluded. The following • - are the only interesting articles in the Swedish Gazettes • • " STOCKHOLM, Nov. t.—According to a letttr from Count Bernstorff,' the Danish Minister Pleni `potontiaii•.t.s appointed to attend the impending Con' :gress tit Jon koping, on the part of tlie. Danish Court' v. ere to set out yesterday On their important mission' tarnished with full powers to conclude a treafy- o 4ea-aee.With thii country. The Swedish Envoy ; his :Iflajtsty's Lord Chamberlain. Count E. G. Adler 'Vara., has been ordered, in consequence of the ?hove intelligence, immediatelrto proceed to Ron"- Koping, to receive them in thai place. An arrni !ice has'. been concluded bet Ween the SWeeish Ma jor-General Baron Tavast and the Danish Adjutant- Gt:l,-,.4 - 11 Baron Belau, which is to commence on the 12th instant. • .foixoriNc, Nov. intelligence w yesterday received, that the following Noble men may be expe6ted here, within a few days, to ;It-gociate and conclude a Treaty of Peace between 1 -)t-nruark and Sweden :—The Swedish Negociators count Adlersparre, his Royal Majesty's Lord Cl):witierlain, and Baton Tanbe; and the Danish Rosencranx, Lord Chamberlain, Baron Selby, Count vlolke. The Royal Danish Plenispo `, .) ;al it's are said to have already reached the Swedish POLICE. • • ItOW7STREET.—Last night .Mr. Alley, the Rtr rister, accompanied by a Centleinan Of the Bar, attended at this Office, when the former preferred the fdllowing coniplaint :---.that having taken his Lady ard two friends that evening to the Lyceum Theatre, he enquired' at the money-taker .at the +WA-door, .whether there was room . , in the dress boxes, and. was answered in the affirmative, where upon he paid 24 shillings, and he and his party weut.ift, but to thofrastooistaneut, the box-keepers said thece tvos no r9Olll for them. , On Mr. Alley urging AO them that be.was inform e,4l!at.the door that there w:is room, they assured him tif6st4ositiVely that.there was not, and that they could - liot give hini.a scat, but that he and 1) . 14 party the upper. tier. of boxes. "This," said 4 , /4. Alley ‘ . `l could not do, knoWing the order fbaares - that occupy seats there, where no 'ttiodett: woman can safely shew her face."— 'He then stated, that that money-taker, told him what he had been informed by the box ..-keepers, weir desired that his , money might be returned. , This was refused ; and being deter -Mined, as a public,rnatter,to haVe this affair investi gated, he solicited the. Magistrate's interference, as in hi Mind he could not look on the transaction as any thing short of obtaioing - money under false pre tences. Mr. Bwd Q p, who i happened to be sitting near Mr. head in the Offiee, 'obSert ed to .Mr. Alley, and to his friend, that the money-taker was not ,acting on his ev , n account, Or receiving the 'money- for his own 04e;- but.for that of his employer'; they both, however, answered, that in law, that circumstance made no difference as to the offence and Mr. , Alley took that occasion to observe, that on an oocaSion nearly when another species of It and v , ;:is tempted on biro at' Covent-Garden Theatre, ,by one of the Deputy Box-; - keepets, he, Mr. Brandon so;:, considered it his duty to interfere, and to have - . - .the offending person discirargt-d. Mr. , -ALLEY when proceeded, and added;. that the money, as fir as it merely reiatekt4 him, .was by nb - means the objeet" of his &infOlairii . ;" his object , was, that it being, in his mind, a matter wherein, „te Public 'was interested, he considered it a duty that he owed the Public to have such an affair hives tigated, Btit Mr. READ took up this observation'and said,' that he did not think that he had aoy jurisdiction in the case, ~for if Mr. Alley " supposed" there w a s inen the charge of obtaining the 24 shillings under false pretences was not supported. Mr. ALLEY .again .contended, tnat whether he might have " supposed" that, or arty thing elseoret as he neither could get his seat or his money, he was entitled to. Magisterial consideration. Mr. READ thought otherwise, and so the matter rests for the present moment, 'COVENT GARDEN TREATRE. Some of the Otfiers m attendance at the Pit en trance, apPeartd , befor Giaham and Read, and slated, that 'several per'ons were aftng in 43 riotous and disordertyamanner in .the avenues to that part of the by svirring, sham-fighting, and bud vociferations. Mr, R EAD (lneeted that such pers , lns as were in the.att of sparring, and similar disorderly conduet, should be 'brought before him. In a few minutes Lavender, and some others of the patrole, returned, with three young men in cus tody, William Anna, a brass-cuiter,Danie/ Sprigs, apprent i ce • ro hi s /a l her, a tailor, in Cecil -street,. Strand, and George Oakley, apprentice to a person named Waude, a - cof,per, in Tipper'sroad. They were charged with rxciiing riot and cotilusion, and by their disorderly cot - 1(111,1 i :revenied free ingress,and egtes to and from the atre added to which, one of them wore the letters 0. P. in red chartiaers in his hat. . T , ey were ordered to find bail. • . John Fred, who stated himseit to be a shoemaker, , residing inWhite-hut-court, Castle-stre4Leicester-, Square, was next brougk forward and charged by Mr. J. Brandon with being one of the most riotous charatters that had appeared in the Theatre since its opening. Mr. Brandon deposed, that he had watched the prisoner from the commencement of the 4th and• perceived him particularly conspicuous it every possible device to cteate tumult ; at one time, he was running train , tire top to the bottom of the pit, hooting and roaring, then assisting in elev a ti ng placards, and finally addressing, the females' in the private and dress-6(A* in the most indecent lan guage. The Prisoner in his defence said, he had been driven about by the fluctuation of the crowd, but denied that there was any impropriety in his demea nour. There were several persons, however, in the °thee, who substantiated the charges against him, and he was ordered to be committed, in default of bail.• Yesterday a nunibeT of livery stable-keepers, and other perions, who have been 'robbed , of horses and gigq, attended for the purpose of seeing the person of Robert . Norton, who has been custodflor'Several days past, on a charge of hiring a horse at a livery stable at Moorgate, under the pretence of going to Tlatupstead, but instead of that rode it to Tattersall's, at Hyde-park corner, and from thence to a livery stable, in Halkin-street, Grosvenor-Place, wheie he sold it for 1 5 - guinea's ; but upon inquiry for the pri.; soner, the gaoler, of the New' Prison, Clerkenwell, reported that the Prisoner had cut his throat, early yesterday morning ; he, however, had not nerpe. . trated the horrid deed effe6tually, as he was .still alive, and there were some little hopes of his recovery.' GUILDHALL.—DanieI Gleeson, a porter, in the service of Mr. Rutter, (of Barbican, was examined, yesterday, charged on suspicioit of robbing his maS ter's counting-house, on Sunday, of Bank of England Notes, and Bills of Exchange to a considerable amount. Arr. Rutter stated, that the prisoner, as was usual, came to his house, On Sunday, to get the key of the _stable, fcir the purpoSe of feeding his horse. He went imo the counting-house to seek. for it, but not find ing it tilers, sent the servant woman up stairs to search for it, and during her absence, 'be remained alone in the counting-house a but before she had time to return farther than the stairs-head, he went out at the hall door, which he left open, aL.d went away, and was observed to have the skirts of his great coat drawn forward, in an unusual alpnucr, as if he concealed 'something. t On Mr. Rutter's coming home in the, evening; I he was informed of Gleeson's having been there, !•-and some time in the counting-house, tie went, but without entertaining any particular sutsjcion, to examine if his desk was locked, but found thdt side which he usually reserved for his own use un ,locked; and a small bill box, about twelve inches in .which contained fifteen pounds in , Bank notes and money, and bills of exchange accepted, but not indorsed, to the .amount of fLS3I. gone. He imMediately procured-.a peace officer, and went 'to the prisoner's lodgings, where he found hitu and his wife in bed. They searched, but found no hing of the property. The wife, however, during the search, took an opportunity of going out of the t house, but they could not.trace her to where she bad been, nor, ascertain what she might have taken out with her, • The prisoner denied all knowledge of the tran saetion, but acknowledged lie had Opened a drawer in the desk to search for the key, which he did not find there. He and his wife, who is also in custody, were remanded for further examination. UNION-HALL.—John Jones and like Robarts, two Welch drovers, were brought before the Sitting Ma gistrate, by Snow, one of the Surrey constables,who stated that he met the Prisoners on Sunday evening, near the Rockingham Arms, in the Kent-road, one of them leading a . poney and the other following. Having a suspicion that they had' stolen the poney, he went up and stopped them, when be perceived a pair of linen trowsers lying across th ) e poney, full of something ; the men had also several parcels about them. On searching the parcels and trowers, they were found to contain nineteen dozen silk handker chiefs. The Prisoners said they bad travelled from Wales • to Deal with beasts; whilst at Deal they purchased the handkerchiefs for fifty pounds; they bought than as at tides of English mimula6ture, and intend ed to have sold them again on their arrival in Wales, At the desire of the Magistrate, several eminent. Silk Mercers attends d, who, on examining the handkerchiefs, all agreed in opinion that they were real .India, and as such prohibited being sold in this cyontrY. - A person from the Custom-house attend ed, this decision, 'seized the golds. The risoners were then discharged, but immediately served - wikh a summons, .requiring them to attend on i Friday : next, and shew cause why the handker chiets shonld not be condemned, and the person in IThose possession they Were •ibund by the. Officer fined in three times their value,. according to Actof Parliament.. MARLBORQUGIF.STREET.—Henry Hart was charg. ed with'felony, at Stephen's 'Hotel; Bond-street,:-on Saturday, into which he got .under false preLences.. The prisoner, who was until - lately, what is termed a cadger (a- begging impostor) went to the howl on SinurClay morning, in the dress ofa sailor, and stated himself to have been 'sent thither, by two Naval Captains, who were on their way from a seaport, to.engage lodgings, and accommodation for them. The prisoner had note; purporting to be from the Captains to a waggon office, from whence their bag. gage was to be sent to the hotel. He remained'at the hotel, and lived well until the evening, when he was seen walking out-of the hall with a pair•of the waiter's boois, and he was taken into .custody. 'Se-i veral charges for smilar impositions at oth,..r hotels were preferred against:hint. '• : He was committed for trial. • A man of the name of Sinifison,•whO keeps a lodging-house for the Cliprian tribe in Suffolk street, Middlesex Hospital, was charged with com mitting a rape on a child, 12 years old, under very aggravated circumstances. The child's sister was an unfortunate inmate of the prisoner's house, and the complainant called to see her, when the prisoner contrived by artifice to accomplish his purpose to the full extent of ►he capital part of the charge. He was remanded for another examination. - Awriourrtr.s.--On Friday se'nnight, as some labourers were digging on the premises on Christo= pher Taylor, Esq. of Legburn Abbey, near Louth, they discOvered,five human - skeletons, which has oc caSioned 'no small degree of conjebure in that' neighbourhood. The sport where they were found is supposed' by some•to have been the burial place of the. Nunnery founded there by Robert de Lekeburn. According to Duedale, the above Robert was buried in the Chapter-house belonging to the Abbe. This Nunnery must have been of very, considerable anti quity ; as we find; from the 'above` authority, that King John, in the first year of his reign,_ confirmed the estates belonging: to it. At this remote peridd, it is not easy to orge' an opinion on the . .subjeet.— . One of the skeletons rested on its side, in an hori zon 4, and.one in, a, F rpendicalar position, per feCtly upright ; the remaining three were sornewhat `scattered—the skulls being all within the circlim 7 ference . of. three feet, only two . feet below the "sur-, face of the earth. History does not: furi ish- ni with any adthentic records of any - battle, in the time' of Cromwell, except that of liVinceby, in this county, or we should be disposed to draw a relative conclu sion ; we are, however, still inclined to think, that the above discoveey is conneaed with that period. The bones were in a very perfea state, and,' in one instance, the teeth, were remarkably sok:nd—they w ere - 'carefully colieeled,' and again interred. - It 4nts been since supposed, and;' ith some degree of pro, bability, that they were the remains of some 'who died of a contagious disease, in the year 1631, or of the plague hi 1666, at which period the mortality was great in Louth and its vicinity. This opinion is strengthened by there being no appearance of Coffins in which the bodies might have been interred: T: .7.7 t labourers, on further examination, came to the foundation,. of a stone building, no doubt of the Chapter-house, which has'given additional strength. to the conclUSion first drawn. A fire broke out in a cottage belonging to a poor woman; in .the .(12 - ,ware-road, on Saturday night, Which consumed the same, and Nirs. Holling, the owner, was burnt. The &ceased was a fortthie jeller of considerable notoriety, and it was supposed' that the fire was occasioned by :ler having.lett a can ' die burning in a chair by her bed-side, as she was in a' state of inebriation, at ten o'clock, at, a, public , house in the neighbourhood, fi'cirtA, Witn;ll Oace a friendly teuiillFoled hQL 'mama. 'IRELAAD. t' . ~<:~~ BALI.INROBE, Nov. 1 ,barbarous murder commir tedawarabis town, on Monday evening last _the eircurn , tinces are as follow inendrcalit in Et dress came into town oOMunday, frooiCastle - bar, : seemialy depri,-ed of the nse of one hand, ac - 7 conipanied by Iris wile and, a child of five weeks old. so i liet:Hg chat ity ;in the evening, about nine o'clock they lett town to F iurn to a village in the neighbour hood, where they had slept the preceding evening, , • called lialemeen, a short w:iy off the Castlebar road, .and to-which :t•here is a hve , road ,leading chortly after they had left the'high road, the man (whoe,e name is Michael Sweeny) entered into an - altercation' with his wife, 'and s.t,ibt el . her in the left side ot her near:the .:naveli and intlicled a, s, ountrst,wi-- ciently large to allow Jm-, b , !wels. to fall ont,; .after he had given the wound, hercturnedto the nearest house on the road that he ban passed, and mentioned that t.wo: men attempreerto violate his wite, and be ing unable to succeed, rnurdered her. A. number of the people immediatelygathered to where i he woman was, and considering the Conduel of the man suspicious, they looked f,a- han.lorth purpose ef\e . - curing him. Finding that be ma,de was. pur sued by the 11.2 v. Mr. Shanly, the Priest of the town, who happened tta.be going by at the ihne, 6"(1-j-aa, of the South Mayo Militia, and several other perSons, - sand secured. The poor woman was b4)ught into • town alive, and continued so' until about 4 o'clock the next morning, when she expired. lielwre ,died she-was asked concerning her murderer, and she declared it was her husband who stabbed her, and said s h e w o u ld not acknowledge it, but she apprehended he might swear against seine innwent person diately after her death, Mr. Gale, as Coroner, an Inquest, and the verdidt was, that " Margaret Sweeny, alias Nash, died of a wound given her by her husband, Michael Sweeny:" lie has si,lee ac .lttiowledged his guilt, and says .he Was' actuated by jealousy. He says they'are native's of the county of , Tipperary. :1-le was sent . off: ,this day to Castl e b ar , to abide his trial next Assizes. LIMERICK, Nov. Monday there was a tit,2 4 .ewtts. meeting - of the Governors and Magistrates of the County of.Tipperag, , in'Clonmel, according to. the requisition of the High SherifF,•f9r the purpose of conSideting the disttnbancLs that have recently - continued to take place in' that county, and the•txtst method: of checking the spirit of outrage; when it appeared front the account s o f respeaabte Magistrates and Qt.nticu - nen,t hat a con .iderable ntimber ot persons had possessedthemseles of : arms, whi c h :t h ey h a d obtained , by breaking open honses try day and might, throughout the country, and that numerous ads of outtageltad'beeh committed by armed bcHies of men; that-ut the fair at Lowe'sireen i on the 19th O.J. art outrageous attack' had been made u; on the Magis trates, in the execution :Of their "th'ty, who were tired 'upon, and a prisoner rescued from them: 'A subscription, to: a large_amount, was entered into Upon the occasion, and rewards offered for the ap prehension Of. the several riators. Letters . from St. Peterburgh, of the 26th Octo• ber, have been transmitted by the Gottenb4rgh They mention the arrival there of the Atne.. rican Plenipotentiary, Mr. JOHN CIOINCY ADAMS, OH the 23d, in thernerchant-shill Horace. The ap proach to the Russian capital of this ship and. her charge, had been previously announced from Cads crona, and for a day.or two previous to her apoelr-. ance, guns were prepared on the ramparts to give' eclat to the landing of the new Statesman ; at length, instead of a frigate, as was expected, a it e cirant ship laden with sugar and coffee hove in sig. t A boat was hoisted our, and Mr. J. Q. ADAMS ap proached the - shore; but before be was .soff,red to land, he underwent a severe examination - by the ORi ners'of the CuStoms, who • were with difficulty c on , vinced that be was the Ambassador expected from the new world. He was, however, at last permit ted to land, but the usual salute by the guns on shore did not take place. Yesterday an over-drove ox, infuriated by , ths Cruelty of bis pursuers, ran up King-street, 'Cheap side, to the end next Guildhall. He'attempted to enter, ,both. at the door leading to the Court of 'Re quests, and that leading to the' Police °Wee.; but' several persons standing at both (loots, had just limo to fling them to, and secure themselves agaMst ger. -Amongst them was a young woman, with a' fine infant in her arms, whom the 'animal followed up to the very threshold. He then turnea his at. tention towards Guildhall, makisg" . a IraPid mote , teen to enter. The Hall was much thronged with people, and the, Court of King's Bench. sitting, into which many of the crowd scampered for safety; and the horned obtruder was every instant expeated . to. follow. But, fortunately, a number of persons at the outer gate had the presence of mind to plead a lucky demurrer in bar of his entry, by closing thy iron gates against him. The Local Militia to be raised in the Wingharn, Elharn, 'Faversham, and Home thvisions, in the Easte . rn part of Kent, is to assemble al Ospringe; where it will be formed into a Regiment, of which, it. is 'understood, Lieut.-General HAARIS will be the Colonel: •_ The North York Militia have removed from Bra bourne Lees to Maidstone, to make room fort he sick of the 68th and 71st ReOlnents ttom Walcheren. The following seats in Patliament are 'now va cant :—Abingdon, by the decease of Mr. Knapp ; Buckinghamshire, by the Marquis of Titchfield sue. ceeding the 'Nike of Portland; Camelford, by Lord H. Petty succeeditz, the Marquis of Lansdowne'; Cockerinouth, by Lord Lowther, made a Lord of the Admiralty ; Dunwich, by Mr. S. Batas, made a Lord of the Treasury ; Durham, by Mr. R. Wharton, wade Secretary to the Treasury ; New port, Hants, tey Lord Palmerston, made Secretary at War; ditto; by Sir A. 'Wellesley, created Viscount Wellington ; 'Northampton, by Mr. Perceval, made First Lord of-the Treasury ; Oxfordshire, by Lord F. Spencer, made a Commi sinner of the Board of, Cuntroul ; Scarborough, by Mr. C. M. Sutton, Judge Advocate ; Tiverton, by Mr. R. Ryder, made Secretary of State ; Edinburgh, by Mr.. Dimdas Saunders, made President of the. Board of Con ` trout Dcwitpatrick, by Mr. J. W: Croke r, - mmitit Secretary to the Admiralty ; and Queen's County, Mr. W. Wellesley Pole, teed i St.crotary , t)f State i* rulotad.